The philosophy of food /
This book explores food from a philosophical perspective, bringing together sixteen leading philosophers to consider the most basic questions about food: What is it exactly? What should we eat? How do we know it is safe? How should food be distributed? What is good food? David M. Kaplan's erudi...
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2012
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| Series: | California studies in food and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Real men have manners / Roger Scruton
- Down-home global cooking: a third option between cosmopolitanism and localism / Lisa Heldke
- Hunger is the best sauce: the aesthetics of food / Kevin W. Sweeney
- Smells, tastes, and everyday aesthetics / Emily Brady
- Ethical gourmandism / Carolyn Korsmeyer
- Two evils in food country: hunger and lack of representation / Michiel Korthals
- Ethics and genetically modified food / Gary Comstock
- The ethics of food safety in the twenty-first century: who keeps the public good?
- The myth of happy meat / Richard P. Haynes
- Animal welfare, happy meat, and veganism as the moral baseline / Gary L. Francione
- Animal ethics and food production in the twenty-first century / David Fraser
- Nature politics and the philosophy of agriculture / Paul B. Thompson
- The ethics and sustainability of aquaculture / Matthias Kaiser
- Scenarios for food security / David Castle, Keith Culver, and William Hannah
- Nutritionism and functional foods / Gyorgy Scrinis
- In vitro meat: what are the moral issues? / Stellan Welin, Julie Gold, and Johanna Berlin.
